SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Symbolic Interactionism, Social Inequality, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2S06
• Professor: David Young

Document Summary

Study of the relationship between political and the economic aspects of society. Marx influenced by political economists like adam smith (who said labour is the source of all wealth) Marx also criticized them, because of their general acceptance of capitalism (they didn"t see a problem with it) and they failed to see inherent conflict between capitalists and workers. He was unable to accept their conservative analysis. Marx wrote capital: a critique of political economy, and tried to give us an alternative political economy that was critical of capitalism. He was influenced by marx sociologists aren"t sure how though. He reacted negatively to marx (engaged in a debate with the ghost of. Social inequality: marx saw it in terms of social class only, weber saw other types of social inequality as well. He reacted positively to marx (attempted to build on and further develop some of marx"s ideas). He built on marx"s analysis of capitalism and class.